I Am Wanting To Go Into Digital Photography As A New Hobby. Do You Reccomend Any Digital Cameras ?
July 23rd, 2009 | 
Author: I have had 3 years of experience with a normal 200 $ cmaera so basically I have very little knowledge about professional digital cameras and photography. Can you reccomend any cameras? Price does not matter.
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Tags: Cameras, Digital, Hobby, Into, Photography, Reccomend, Wanting
Go with the Canon EOS series of SLR camera. Professional photographers often use that brand. I recommend getting a 35 to 75 zoom, and NEVER remove it from the camera. Dust specks are deadly to digital cameras.
Learn about focus. Learn about shutter speed. Learn about F stop. The whole idea is to learn how to make great pictures; not how to spend hours to fix something that was shot poorly. The idea is NOT to get snap happy, but take great photos.
When you PRINT your own, you will probably find that the Canon Color inkjet printers are the best. Professional photographers tell me that is what you should use.
Good luck
In my opinion photography is one of the coolest hobbies you could have picked. If going with digital definately go with the
Canon Digital Rebel. It kicks ***… I LOVE mine!!!! But as for printing you should definately go with the newer epson photo printers (canon makes awesome camers but poor quality printers) You should also get a program call photoshop… the newer versions are more expensive but much better. Just remember that more expensive usually means better quality.
If price truly doesn’t matter, get a Nikon D200 and a good lens and use it in “P mode while you learn more about photography. If that’s too steep for your budget or your learning curve, get a Nikon D50. It has a few “consumer friendly” automatic modes, but still offers total photographic control when you are ready to take charge. Get a “decent” lens, such as their 18-70 f/3.5-4.5 DX lens. This pair will cost you about $1,000. If you want more lenses for the same money, you can get this camera with two “kit” lenses that are decent, but not as good for the long haul as the one I mentioned. When you are ready to add lenses, the sky is the limit with Nikon.
Someone else wil undoubtedly recommend a similar Canon camera and I will not dispute that choice. I know Nikons and someone else knows Canons. Both are excellent cameras and you will never outgrow their system offerings.
Since digital photography can become addictive, i suggest you take a look at the website I’m sending as a source, so you can have a pretty good look at many models.
As buying tips, I could tell you the following:
* The resolution, expressed in megapixels, gives you better pictures when is high (6+), however, it also needs a computer with lots of memoy and a good processor.
* If you don’t intend to learn profesionally, then I suggest you try the simpliest ones, with automatic programmes and don’t spend your money in cameras above $500 USD
* You may want to take pictures anytime, anywhere, so a pocket size camera will fit perfectly this need.
* Maybe you also want to take pictures underwater. Then check if there’s also an appropiate housing for the camera, not many of them have one.
* Other thing you may want to see in a camera is if it has the posibility of making videos with sound.
* And also, if it has a good optical zoom. Digital zooms are ok, but then you need a lot of stability -like when using a tripod- for taking a good picture.
* And, finally, check the kind of memory cards it takes, so you can buy a large one if you intend to take a lot of pictures or videos. It’s very frustrating to run out of memory when taking pictures.
I hope this helps you.
I have a Kodak EasyShare Z740 and love every minute of it. it takes some great pics. But if price doesn’t matter man have fun…
If you are looking for a smaller camera I would look at the line Sony has that are very flat and are about the size of a deck of cards. If you want better than that, spend about $800 and get a Leica Digilux 2. If you want a single-lens-reflex, look at the Nikon D200 or the Canon.
Go to http://www.stevesdigicams.com for lots of very good reviews.
I have to agree w/the Canon fans. I’ve had the EOS 10D for four years and ***love*** it. The processor (DIGIC II) inside the new Canons is known for its quality images w/very little “noise”, the equivalent of grain in film photos. Here’s a guideline, in order of price:
Canon S3 IS – a very nice camera w/a fixed zoom lens
Canon EOS 30D – a little better than the Digital Rebel (350D) another person recommended, since you said price doesn’t matter. ~$1300
Canon EOS 5D – and absolutely awesome camera for the price, which is ~$3K.
Canon EOS 1DS Mk II – the best. If you just plain have money to burn *and* you don’t mind carrying one crazy heavy camera around, go for it and have a blast. ~$6K
Well sure …if money wasn’t a factor Id go with the Canon EOS digital. All the regular EOS lenses will fit the digital body.
Go with a digital SLR, you wont regret it. Either Nikon or Cannon (you’ll never get a solid answer to which is better so don’t try, its personal preference) Cannon is usually more expensive, Nikon seems to have slightly better lenses and prices. Nikon however was, or still is, encrypting the files their cameras take which makes it harder to view on software other than theirs later, you might check into this. Even so, if you ask me, I’d go with Nikon. Pick your important features to narrow it down, then visit a camera store to actually hold them.